Clothes-washer



(No Model.)

J. J. TURNER.

CLOTHES WASHER.

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' CLOTH ES-WASH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,613, dated June '7, 1887.

Application filed June 3, 1886. Serial No. 204.025. (No-model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN J osnrn TURNER, of .Hunters Point, Long Island City, in the county of Queens and the State of New York,

- have invented a new and Improved Clothes- Washer, of which the following is a full, clear and exact description.

My invention relates to the construction of an improved-form of clothes-washer, the obro jcct of the invention being to so arrange and construct the machine that during the process ofwashing the water may not only be forced through the interstices between the threads of the fabric, but also between the fibers which enter into the composition of the individual I threads; and to this end the invention consists by auxiliary washing-chambers, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifieally pointed out in the claim.

. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal central sectional elevation of my improved clothes-washer; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the cover, however, being removed.

In constructing such an apparatus as is illustrated in the drawings above referred to, I provide :a main boiler, 10, which may be of any form desired, but which is preferably constructed in the form illustratedin the drawings above referred to. This boiler is provided with a false bot-tom, 11, that is made of perforated sheet metal, and centrally supported by a circular wall, 12, in which there are openings 13. Above the wall 12 there is a central cylindrical wall, 14, extending upward to a level with the top edge of a boiler, thus forming the main central chamber, 15. The lower portion of the wall 14 is finely perforated, as best shown in Fig. 1, while the upper portion is formed with perforations, as 2 2, the central portion of the wall not being perforated.

' Within the central chamber, 15, there is arranged aplunger, 16, formed of perforated sheet metal, that is strengthened and braced by a cylindrical curb, 17, that fits close against the inner face of thewall14, the curb extending both above and below the plate 16.

Across the top of the boiler there is mounted a crankshaft, 20, which is provided with a crank-handle, 21, that is connected with the plunger .16, through themedium of a connecting-link, 22, lugs 23 being arranged upon the top of the plunger, and the lower end of the connecting-rod being pivotally mounted between said lugs. In each corner of the boiler 10, I arrange perforated strips 30, which, however, do not extend above the closed central portion of the wall 14.

At the height of the walls there is arranged an intermediate cover, 40, consisting of sections 3, that are secured to the side walls of the boiler and'to the wall 14:, and of sections 40, that are hinged to the said sections 3, the sections 40 being, however, cut out in each corner, so as to not project beyond the perforated strips 30, thus leaving the way to the passages 50, formed by said strips, clear. The whole devicein operation is closed by a cover, 60, provided with handles 61 and a central dome, 62, within which the crank of the shaft 20 revolves.

In operation the boiler is preferably filled with water in which there is placed a sufficient amount of soap to thoroughly cleanse the garments, the clothes being placed both above and below the piston 16 in the central chamber,

15, only a small quantity of clothes, however, being placed above the piston, the other materials to be washed being placed in the compartments at each end of the boiler, when,after the water has been brought to the boiling, point, the crank-shaft 20 is revolved, and a reciprocating motion is imparted to the piston 16. As the piston is revolved the clothes upon the top of it will act as valves for the various perforations formed in the piston, and the wa ter will be pumped upward and flowing out ward. through the perforations 2, formed in the upper part of the wall, willpass into the spaces 41 above the end chambers, 42. .A portion of the waterso flowing outward through the perforations 2 will flow directly downward through the perforations in the eovcr40; but the greater portion of the water will flow downward through the corner passages, 50, to be drawn up again by the plunger 16.

With such a machine as I have described I am able to thoroughly wash and cleanse garments and all kinds of soiled material in from ten to fifteen minutes, and this, too, without in the least injuring the fabric of the pieces so washed and cleansed. r I

If desired, the plunger could be made in properly-united sections, and it will of course be understood thata wooden instead of a metallic plunger could be used.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- JOHN JOSEPH TURNER.

Witnesses:

Wnss II. BENNETT, C. M. WERDRN. 

